Levon Melik-Shakhnazaryan: "We must adhere to the offensive policy regarding the Garabagh problem following the presidential elections"

"It is necessary to abolish all previous developments of negotiations on the Garabagh issue and initiate a new aggressive policy in this direction", he said.

According to Melik-Shakhnazaryan, the June meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliyev has drawn a line under the negotiation process on Garabagh for 2007, as today everyone are waiting for the results of presidential elections in Armenia, Azerbaijan and two of the three countries, co-chairing in the OSCE Minsk Group-Russia and US.

The politician scientist noted that Azerbaijan has stiffened its stance following the meeting, while Armenia's statements became softer.

"Such situation causes concern, as the militaristic statements of Azerbaijan mainly rely on oil dollars and sharp expansion of the military budget of this country, while soft and pacific declarations of Armenia are probably the results of our complementary external policy", he noted.

Melik-Shakhnazaryan considers that Armenia has a strong basis to pass to the offensive.

"We have a 15 year experience of peaceful existence of Nagorno Garabagh, we have international laws, promoting the recognition of independence of Nagorno Garabagh, we have a strong army, which is able to protect Armenian borders and there are such precedents as Kosovo, Trans-Dniester, Abkhazia and North Ossetia", the political scientist said.

/Day.Az/